Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

Chapter Two Hundred and Fifty Five

Axel lived on in my dreams but waking up to the painful reminder always left me in tears. There was this hole Axel had left behind, one that I feared even time couldn’t heal.

first

I didn’t know exactly why I was paying the sorceress a visit, but I knew I needed to right my wrongs. This place was exactly how it had been when I and Nick arrived here for the very time. I knew I shouldn’t be here and yet… yet here I was. I pushed aside the tendrils, which came together to form a curtain.

The sorceress sat as still as a statue on the moss–covered altar.

“Welcome back, Queen.” She said, turning to me. I stared into those ancient–looking eyes that seemed to know everything.

“You know why I am here,” I said to her.

“Yes, I do, but I am afraid I cannot help you.”

“Please…”

“You seek to fight fate, to fight nature itself. You cannot revive one that is already dead.”

“You can’t or… you won’t?”

“I can’t give life, Queen.”

“But there is something you can do, isn’t there? I will pay handsomely for your services.” I said to her, I had carried along the Cursed Weapon and why I knew fully well that it wasn’t mine to trade, I was willing to go through with it

said, rising to her feet. “Who is he to you? she asked, curiosity clear in her

I

more than that. You want to have them both, but you can only have one.”

about me or what I want.”

to please him,

raising back his dead second in

you

Can you bring

bring him back, but he wouldn’t be alive; he would be the creature you dread a

–

“I don’t care…”

things before and you regretted it, I won’t let you make

Two Hundred and Filly Five

he might end up

guess there is a price

price? No, there is no price, but an exchange. You cannot upset fate without

have to give?” I

long, and finally

I

too much a sacrifice to make,” she said, turning away like